Date:  Thu, 10 Nov 1994 13:08:48 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: word geography



> BEING FROM EASTERN KENTUCY I ALWAYS HEARD THE TERM DOODLEBUG REFER TO THE

> LITTLE BROWN BUGS THAT LIVE UNDERGROUND.



There was trouble in my neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. We--children

of parents from Weimar, Texas--called the multiple-legged arthropod that

curled up when touched a doodlebug, but the kids next door from Kansas

called ant lions doodlebugs. They called our doodlebug a pill bug. There

were other problems too, but I've got to go to the library now and review

76 requests for development money. You'd think that I was on a search

committee or something.















Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu

BITNET Address: Wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]USCN